Movie Quote Quiz

This would have been posted sooner, but after I wrote it
Thursday and thought I had prepared it to go up automatically at 11 a.m. today,
it somehow disappeared. So I had to start over, including going back to look up
most of the quotes all over again.

Anyway, that’s my problem. This Movie Quote Quiz, inspired
by recent events, has two themes that cover every quote included here. As you
recognize those themes, please identify them in the Comments along with the
quotes.

Don’t look the quotes up if you intend to participate. Don’t
answer more than a couple the first time around. We want everyone to have a
chance to participate. You’ll be welcome back to answer as many as you know if
unidentified quotes remain tonight or over the weekend.

As a bonus, I’ve posted a great movie clip at the end. It’s
from the third funniest segment of this particular movie; I reluctantly decided
the first two were too tasteless/disgusting for this blog. I still think you’ll
get some laughs from it.

OK, let’s go:

1. “Look, Julius. Do you know how many times I've heard
stories like this? It's every orphan's fantasy. My real mom and dad were rich,
and beautiful. But... there was a mix-up at the hospital. And I got switched
with another baby. But one day, there's gonna be a knock at the door. And there
they'll be, with open arms, crying, ‘My darling. My treasure. We didn't know.
How can we make it up to you?’ Let me tell you something for your own good
Julius. It a CROCK!”

2. “Laine Hanson has asked that I allow her to step aside.
She asked me to do this because she wants my presidency to end on a note of
triumph and not controversey. Understand, those of you who worked to bring
Laine Hanson down, that she asked to have her name withdrawn from
consideration, NOT because she isn't great, but because she isn't petty.
Because those two forms of leadership traits could not live in her body or her
soul. Greatness. It comes in many forms, sometimes it comes in the form of
sacrifice - that's the loneliest form.”

3. “When Matrix finishes the job, he'll be back for his
daughter. Now whether she's alive or dead doesn't matter. Then he'll be after
you. Now the only thing between you and Matrix... is me.”

4. “The cover-up had little to do with the Watergate
foul-up. It was mainly to protect the covert operations. It leads everywhere.
Get out your notebook. There's more. I think your lives are in danger.”

5. “Now, I had some pretty good coaching last night, and I
find that if I yield only for a question or a point of order or a personal
privilege, that I can hold this floor almost until doomsday. In other words,
I've got a piece to speak, and blow hot or cold, I'm going to speak it.”

6. “Come with me if you want to live.”

7. “I have here evidence in the form of notes, letters, and
written memoranda, proving that Bob Alexander was involved in each of these
illegal acts, and in most cases planned them as well.”

8. “I like to watch.”

9. Speaker 1: “Get some rest and don't worry. I've been
working undercover for a long time. They're six-year-olds. How much trouble can
they be?”
Speaker 2: “On second thought, take the gun.”

10. “You want a character debate, Bob? You better stick with
me, 'cause Sydney Ellen Wade is way out of your league.”

11. “You are to shoot the presidential nominee through the
head. And Johnny will rise gallantly to his feet and lift Ben Arthur's body in
his arms, stand in front of the microphones and begin to speak. The speech is
short. But it's the most rousing speech I've ever read. It's been worked on,
here and in Russia, on and off, for over eight years. I shall force someone to
take the body away from him and Johnny will really hit those microphones and
those cameras with blood all over him, fighting off anyone who tries to help
him, defending America even if it means his own death, rallying a nation of
television viewers to hysteria, to sweep us up into the White House with powers
that will make martial law seem like anarchy!”

12. “What's bullbleep, Mr. Quaid? That you're having a
paranoid episode triggered by acute neuro-chemical trauma? Or that you're
really an invincible secret agent from Mars who's the victim of an
interplanetary conspiracy to make him think he's a lowly construction worker?
Stop punishing yourself, Doug. You're a fine, upstanding man. You have a
beautiful wife who loves you. Your whole life is ahead of you. But you've got
to want to return to reality.”

13. “I let them down. I let down my friends, I let down my
country, and worst of all I let down our system of government, and the dreams
of all those young people that ought to get into government but now they think;
'Oh it's all too corrupt and the rest'. Yeah... I let the American people down.
And I'm gonna have to carry that burden with me for the rest of my life. My
political life is over.”

14. “Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no
tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad.
Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many.
That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request.
Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!”

15. “In 1935, Ed Murrow began his career with CBS.”

16. “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist
infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the
international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious
bodily fluids.”

#3 - Commando with Arnold Schwartzenegger, Alyssa Milano (the daughter) and Rae Dawn Chong (if memory serves me correctly)
#7 - Dave - with Kevin Kline (Dave/The President), Frank Langella (as Bob Alexander), and Sigourney Weaver as the First Lady
Is political scandal the theme (either part of the plot or one of the main actors?)

Posted By: usmapiper88 | Nov 9, 2012 12:20:16 PM

14. Conan the Barbarian

16. Dr. Strangelove or How I learn to stop worrying and love the bomb.

Posted By: Brett M. | Nov 9, 2012 12:29:23 PM

Correct with all those. Politics in general is the other theme, although it's true that many of these involve some kind of scandal. Arnold's former job makes his movies fit this category in a sense, too.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 12:33:45 PM

In that case, Langella could be a minor theme, which might provide a clue to one of the other films.

Posted By: Susan | Nov 9, 2012 12:43:53 PM

#4 - All the President's Men
#9 - Kindergarten Cop

Posted By: Bob H. | Nov 9, 2012 12:53:47 PM

I think Langella is in two of these movies, but I didn't intend him as a theme.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 12:55:14 PM

I just realized that James Earl Jones was in both 14 and 16.

Posted By: Brett M. | Nov 9, 2012 12:59:58 PM

Good point. Again, not intended as a theme. I should do best James Earl Jones movies as a movie list sometime.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 1:01:58 PM

11. The Manchurian Canddiate

Posted By: Tom | Nov 9, 2012 1:13:34 PM

#8 is "Being There". It would appear that Peter Sellers is in a couple of these movies as well.

Posted By: John M | Nov 9, 2012 1:14:04 PM

#6 Terminator

Posted By: Jeff Hager | Nov 9, 2012 1:51:50 PM

There you go. I always loved that Terminator quote.
Peter Sellers also was inadvertent. I guess I need to pay more attention to who's in these movies.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 2:00:02 PM

#12 Total Recall with Arnold

Posted By: Lois | Nov 9, 2012 2:13:16 PM

#7 is American President. #10 is also American President. #15 is Good Night Good Luck.--dezi

Posted By: Dezi Nance | Nov 9, 2012 2:30:16 PM

Excellent. All still correct. I think we struggled the last time I put a "Good Night Good Luck" quote on one of these quizzes, but I was surprised "American President" lasted this long. That Michael Douglas speech was the best moment in the movie.
Still a couple more out there. A previous answerer gave a good clue to one of them.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 2:33:42 PM

There are 2 answers for #7--which is correct? "Dave" or "American President"?

Posted By: Lois | Nov 9, 2012 3:40:13 PM

Whoops. Dave is No. 7, American President is No. 10. I never use the same movie twice.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 3:45:13 PM

Still out there, I believe, are 2 and 13, both terrific movies about political scandals.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 4:36:07 PM

#13 Nixon

Posted By: DON | Nov 9, 2012 5:40:20 PM

That's half right

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 5:47:06 PM

2. The Contender, a rather mediocre film.

Posted By: Brett M. | Nov 9, 2012 5:49:32 PM

#2 is The Contender. I thought it was pretty good, actually.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 9, 2012 5:51:59 PM

I think Gary Oldman is great in pretty much anything he does. You could have him on TV reading a Chinese menu and I'd watch for a while. I just couldn't get into this movie. It just seemed too simplistic. Democrats=good, Republicans=bad.

There was one thing I didn't quite get. Perhaps you can explain this to me. At one point in The Contender, Joan Allen's character is seen jogging through Arlington National Cemetery. Now I consider Arlington hallowed ground. I would image most Americans feel the same. It's not just some park for people to exercise in. Did the writer of this film have her jogging through the cemetery to show her being disrespectful, ignorant, or did the writer just not put much thought into that scene?

Posted By: Brett M. | Nov 9, 2012 6:26:41 PM

#13 Frost/Nixon

Posted By: Lu | Nov 9, 2012 10:09:45 PM

I just realized I never got back on here to respond to Brett and to confirm that Lu indeed had the last movie on the list. She was correct, and I agree about the jogging scene. It was kind of dramatic, which I'm sure was the point, not to demonstrate she was disrespectful.

Posted By: Bill White | Nov 12, 2012 1:39:41 PM

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